The Dénia City Council’s Department of Equality and Diversity intends to honour the International Day Against LGBTI-phobia on May 17th with a message of courage and optimism, “because in the face of hatred, fear, and intolerance, love will prevail.”
From today until May 31st, the campaign message will be distributed via social media, online platforms, and billboards around the municipality.
“We have chosen a campaign that uses the now universal and popular gesture of joining hands and fingers to form a heart as a symbol of appreciation, with a visual language adapted to the new generations,” Javier Scotto, Diversity Councillor, tells me. “With these messages, we want to convey to citizens that, in the face of negative attitudes such as hatred, fear, and intolerance, which hurt, exclude, and divide, love liberates, heals, and unites society.”
Scotto adds that the campaign honours the twentieth anniversary of equal love, which secured same-sex couples the ability to marry, “which is equivalent to the legal, and later social, recognition of the existence of diverse love.” In the face of discrimination, emotional partnerships based on sexual variety have and will continue to win.”
“Given the current geopolitical climate, the International Day Against LGBTI-phobia is more than vital. This is not the time to demolish, roll back, or restrict legally gained rights; it is the time to be able to love whomever you want and, most importantly, to grow, progress, and advance equality and diversity,” Scotto adds.
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